ABOUT THE EPISODE

Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview Kyle Claunch on his Christ Over All essay: "God the Father: Namesake of all Fatherhood"

 Timestamps

• 00:26 – Intro
• 03:45 – Dr. Wellum’s Highlights of Travel to the UK and Ireland
• 05:56 – Kyle Claunch’s Forthcoming Book
• 07:48 – Where are the Challenges of Feminist Language for God Coming From?
• 17:41 – Analogical, Univocal, and Equivocal Language
• 20:34 – What Does Amy Peeler Argue about God?
• 26:17 – Is there Ever a Non-Metaphorical Language that is Used for God?
• 31:59 – Does EFS Theology Drive Amy Peeler’s View of the Trinity and Metaphorical Language?
• 35:42 – Proper and Figurative Language
• 42:13 – The Value of Being Precise in Our Language Towards God
• 47:31 – The Essential and Personal Nature of God the Father
• 54:57 – How Do These Things Help Us Begin to Reflect the Fatherhood of God?
• 57:49 – Final Thoughts from Dr. Wellum
• 59:41 – Outro

Resources to Click

• “God the Father: Namesake of All Fatherhood”– Kyle Claunch
• “Theological Language and the Fatherhood of God: An Exegetical and Dogmatic Account” – Kyle Claunch
• “On the Improper Use of Proper Speech: A Response to Ronald W. Pierce and Erin M. Heim, ‘Biblical Images of God as Moter and Spiritual Formation’” – Kyle Claunch
• Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
• Give to Support the Work

Books to Read 

• Post Reformation Reformed Dogmatics – Richard Muller
• Theoretical Practical Divinity, Vol. 2: Faith in the Triune God – Petrus Van Mastricht
• Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 2: God and Creation – Herman Bavinck
• Summa Theologiae Book 1 – Thomas Aquinas
• “Baptists, Sola Scriptura, and the Place of Christian Tradition,” in Baptists and the Christian Tradition – ed. Matthew Emerson, Christopher Morgan & R. Lucas Stamps
• John Gill’s Commentary of the First Letter of John – John Gill
• She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse – Elizabeth A. Johnson
• Women and the Gender of God – Amy Peeler
• Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives – eds. Ronald W. Pierce, Cynthia Long Westfall, et. al
• The Father and the Feminine: Exploring the Grammar of God and Gender – Spencer Miles Boersma
• The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology – Adonis Vidu
• On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God – eds. Matthew Barrett and Todd Billings